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WASHINGTON _ The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account. The remarks by Maj. Gen.

During its 1600 gmt newscast, Doha Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel in Arabic was observed to report on new allegations of torture in US military prisons and accusations to the Pentagon of knowingly pursuing illegal interrogation tactics.

WASHINGTON _ The CIA, which had authority to use harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorist detainees, advised U.S. military officials at Guantanamo in 2002 on how far they could go in extracting information from captives there, documents released at a Senate hearing Tuesday show.

Military lawyers warned against the harsh detainee interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, contending in separate memos weeks before Rumsfeld's endorsement that they could be illegal, a Senate panel has found.

The U.S. military transferred the first group of detainees on Thursday to a new maximum-security prison at Guantanamo Bay designed to restrict contact among the prisoners and prevent attacks on guards.

By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush plans to
unveil proposed legislation on Wednesday to set a structure for
conducting trials of foreign terrorism suspects held at
Guantanamo Bay, White House officials said.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The military has charged a U.S. Navy
officer who worked as a lawyer at Guantanamo Bay with mailing
classified information on foreign terrorism suspects there to
an unauthorized person, the Navy said on Tuesday. Lt. Cmdr.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has received assurances the
United States will not seek the death penalty for Australian
Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks if it brings new charges
against him, Attorney General Philip Ruddock said on Saturday.